[List] Top 21 Money Makers In Hip-Hop According To Forbes

It’s all about the money, the flow, the greenery. Whatever you want to call it, hip-hop’s finest rhymesters usually have a thing (or twenty) to say about the acquisition of cash and honeys.

Forbes Magazine just released their list of the Top 21 Big Pimpin’ Spendin’ Cheese Hip-Hop Artists Of 2011. Most of them are understandable, but a few of the names might shock you.

21.[lastfm link_type=”artist_info”] B.o.B[/lastfm] (tie) – $5 million

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Brand new to the game, B.o.B is bringing in bank with his fresh, innovate hip-hop stylings. It might be the smallest number on this list, but we wouldn’t complain with five milli burning a hole in our pockets.

It seems no one forgot about Dre, especially when he is producing some of the most well-known music video sponsored headphones in the business and splitting the massive earnings with music exec Jimmy Iovine.

See. You can go to prison, but still make a ton of money without creating an in-house jail racket. Anyone need an extra toothbrush and a carton of Marlboro Lights?

3. [lastfm link_type=””]Kanye West[/lastfm] – $16 million

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Mr. West has a taste for opulence, so it’s great that he makes enough money to be able to afford that floating bed made with cherub tears.

2. [lastfm link_type=”artist_info”]Diddy[/lastfm] – $35 million

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This is the man who made a viral video where he claimed he owned all of Broadway Blvd. in New York. Even if it was a joke (probably), with $35 million in the vault, he could easily own a building or two.

1. [lastfm link_type=”artist_info”]Jay-Z [/lastfm]- $37 million

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The Roc Nation mogul has been hip-hop’s top earner four out of five years thanks to his music career, his deal with Live Nation, his New Jersey Jets stakes, the 40/40 Club, and the superpowers [lastfm link_type=”artist_info”]Beyonce[/lastfm] gives him.